Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises

CAE Gapped Sentences: For A Change

For questions 1-5, think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Here is an example (0).

Write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet below.

It would a nice change if you could do the cleaning this time.
If you leave your valuables lying around, somebody will off with them.
The first film was commercially successful so they expect the sequel to a large profit too.

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There's no against people singing and dancing in the street at any time of day.
He's already been in trouble with the several times in the past.
According to the of averages it should be sunny at least one day a week in the UK
He was driving at ninety miles per hour in the lane of the motorway when the crash happened.
My watch is five minutes so it must be quarter past ten now.
Many people mistakenly believe that food is by definition unhealthy. In fact, some of it can be quite nutritious.
President Obama's first as president was to close the Guantanamo detention camp.
In four of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet learns of the death of her lover Romeo.
Some religious people believe that natural disasters are an of God to punish the wicked.
Many people it difficult to do two things at the same time.
The writer William Sedgewick wrote that he didn't true happiness until the final two years of his life.
Many children are really upset when they out that Santa Claus is not real.
I only had a meal before the flight so now I'm absolutely starving.
They sat on the beach and looked out to sea. A wind was blowing across the water, leaving small ripples.
My mother was a very sleeper so whenever I tried to sneak downstairs in the night, she woke up.